This selection is taken from the new and complete transcription of these editors published by Bell & Hyman in 11 volumes over the years 1970-1983. Combining the references, notes, charts and other aids prepared for the full set, this selection makes the highpoints of the Diary available to a wider audience, and certainly to an audience with a limited budget. This ‘first-hand account’ of life in London in the 1660s includes reference to the Great Fire, the Plague and the Dutch War, apart from the details of his own day-to-day activities.